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Northwestern University - Wirtz Center
NT Live: BEHIND THE BEAUTIFUL FOREVERS
By David Hare. Based on the book by Katherine Boo. Directed by Rufus Norris. Starring Meera Syal. Contains strong language and some scenes of violence. Suitable for 14yrs+
Wednesday, April 1, 2015 at 7:00PM

Josephine Louis Theater
20 Arts Circle Drive
Evanston, IL 60208
Located on the southeast part of the Evanston campus just off Sheridan Road and Campus Drive, the Louis Theater faces the parking structures.

National Theatre Live is the National Theatre's groundbreaking project to broadcast the best of British theatre live (or for US venues, delayed) from the London stage to cinemas and theaters across the UK and around the world.

Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo spent three years in Annawadi recording the lives of its residents. From her uncompromising book, winner of the National Book Award for Non-Fiction 2012, David Hare has fashioned a tumultuous play on an epic scale. India is surging with global ambition. But beyond the luxury hotels surrounding Mumbai airport lies a makeshift slum, full of people with plans of their own. Zehrunisa and her son Abdul aim to recycle enough rubbish to fund a proper house. Sunil, twelve and stunted, wants to eat until he’s as tall as Kalu the thief. Asha seeks to steal government anti-poverty funds to turn herself into a ‘first-class person’, while her daughter Manju intends to become the slum’s first female graduate. But their schemes are fragile; global recession threatens the garbage trade, and another slum-dweller is about to make an accusation that will destroy herself and shatter the neighborhood.